Manifest Technique
ebook ∣ Hip Hop, Empire, and Visionary Filipino American Culture · Asian American Experience
By Mark R. Villegas
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An obscured vanguard in hip hop
Filipino Americans have been innovators and collaborators in hip hop since the culture's early days. But despite the success of artists like Apl.de.Ap of the Black Eyed Peas and superstar producer Chad Hugo, the genre's significance in Filipino American communities is often overlooked. Mark R. Villegas considers sprawling coast-to-coast hip hop networks to reveal how Filipino Americans have used music, dance, and visual art to create their worlds. Filipino Americans have been exploring their racial position in the world in embracing hip hop's connections to memories of colonial and racial violence. Villegas scrutinizes practitioners' language of defiance, placing the cultural grammar of hip hop within a larger legacy of decolonization.
|Mark R. Villegas is an assistant professor of American studies at Franklin & Marshall College.
Filipino Americans have been innovators and collaborators in hip hop since the culture's early days. But despite the success of artists like Apl.de.Ap of the Black Eyed Peas and superstar producer Chad Hugo, the genre's significance in Filipino American communities is often overlooked. Mark R. Villegas considers sprawling coast-to-coast hip hop networks to reveal how Filipino Americans have used music, dance, and visual art to create their worlds. Filipino Americans have been exploring their racial position in the world in embracing hip hop's connections to memories of colonial and racial violence. Villegas scrutinizes practitioners' language of defiance, placing the cultural grammar of hip hop within a larger legacy of decolonization.
An important investigation of hip hop as a movement of racial consciousness, Manifest Technique shows how the genre has inspired Filipino Americans to envision and enact new ideas of their bodies, their history, and their dignity.
| Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Preface: On Constant Replay Acknowledgments Introduction: Savage Folklorists in Your Empire 1. Currents of Militarization, Flows of Hip Hop: Expanding the Geographies of Filipino American Cult 2. "Civilize the Savage": Toward Islam, Filipino Origin, and the Golden Age 3. Nation in the Universe: The Cosmic Vision of Afro-Filipino Futurism 4. Postcolonial Bodies, Modern Postures: Erasure and Community Formation in Filipino American Conclusion: Work I Manifest Notes Selected Bibliography Index Back cover |"Manifest Technique brilliantly demonstrates how to place Filipino American choreography, lyrics, and crew allegiances at the heart of our study of hip hop as a cultural vernacular. Villegas invites us to listen deep and to consider how these expressive forms carry forward memories, desires, and critiques."—Theodore S. Gonzalves, author of The Day the Dancers Stayed: Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora|Mark R. Villegas is an assistant professor of American studies at Franklin & Marshall College.
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